Opinion: Health care is at risk as Grad PLUS loans face the chopping block
| August 21, 2025
The ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill Act’ strips critical funding, including Grad PLUS loans, from medical students and threatens care in rural and underserved communities.Plan an autumn adventure at the best fall foliage campsites in Michigan
| August 20, 2025
Campsites in Michigan are just as stunning during the off-season, when fall foliage and early winter snow add a natural sprinkle of magic.Michigan State University Board of Trustees approve memorial to commemorate 2023 shooting tragedy
| August 19, 2025
The MSU Board of Trustees has unanimously approved a plan to build a permanent memorial to honor the victims of the shooting that gripped the MSU community in 2023.The fascinating histories behind 6 Michigan roads
| August 18, 2025
Turns out, the roads we drive every day aren’t just pavement and paint—they’re pieces of Michigan’s ever-evolving history. Buckle up as we take you on a trip down six Michigan roads with names that tell the story of the state’s past.The Grand Rapids Food Guide: The best restaurants of 2025
| August 18, 2025
We asked our readers to tell us their favorite Grand Rapids restaurants. Here's what they said.7 quick hits of cannabis news from across Michigan
| August 18, 2025
Cheap weed, cranky neighbors, cart recalls, and a dispensary caper that sounds like it’s straight out of a low-budget movie. Yep, it’s another week in Michigan cannabis.MichiGanja in Review: Redemption Cannabis proves top-shelf weed doesn’t need a top-shelf price tag
| August 18, 2025
Cheap weed usually comes with a catch. Maybe it’s too dry. Maybe it tastes like hay. But every once in a while, a cannabis company comes along that flips the script. One of them is Redemption Cannabis.7 things you should never say in a Michigan dispensary
| August 18, 2025
Weed shopping isn’t rocket science. But knowing what not to say can make for a better dispensary experience—and better cannabis.Opinion: The America my parents believed in is disappearing
| August 18, 2025
Michigan State Rep. Mai Xiong reflects on the fear Trump's immigration policies are causing for Michigan families.The Grand Rapids Food Guide: The best Mexican restaurants of 2025
| August 18, 2025
We asked our readers to tell us their favorite Grand Rapids restaurants. Here's what they said.The Grand Rapids Food Guide: The best burritos of 2025
| August 18, 2025
We asked our readers to tell us their favorite wet burritos in Grand Rapids. Here's what they said.WATCH: Why more Michiganders are getting tickets for just trying to sleep?
| August 18, 2025
From Lansing to Traverse City, people are getting ticketed, pushed out, and told to disappear just for being homeless—even if they have nowhere to go.
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The fascinating histories behind 6 Michigan roads
| August 18, 2025
Turns out, the roads we drive every day aren’t just pavement and paint—they’re pieces of Michigan’s ever-evolving history. Buckle up as we take you on a trip down six Michigan roads with names that tell the story of the state’s past.That one time in Michigan: When America’s only floating post office set sail
| August 5, 2025
Learn more about the J.W. Westcott II, aka America's only floating post office, which keeps Great Lakes freighters stocked with everything from mechanical parts to hamburgers.A historian’s guide to living history in and around Detroit
| July 29, 2025
You’ve studied Michigan history, but why not live it? Check out one historian’s guide to the best ways to bring history to life in Metro Detroit.That one time in Michigan: When we had our deadliest tornado
| July 14, 2025
June marked the 72nd anniversary of the deadliest tornado in Michigan’s history. Learn about the Flint-Beecher tornado, its impact, and its lasting legacy.75 years after the then-worst crash in US history, search ends for a plane in Lake Michigan
| June 26, 2025
A group is ending a 20-year search for a plane that crashed into Lake Michigan in 1950.A guide to what the Juneteenth holiday is and how to celebrate it
| June 18, 2025
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a […]It’s the only Great Lake entirely within US. 10 things to know about Lake Michigan
| June 4, 2025
Lake Michigan, the only one of the five Great Lakes entirely within the United States, spans the western coast of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, providing state residents with fantastic beaches to explore, but there are other fascinating and fun facts about Lake Michigan.A historian explores Michigan’s secret bootlegging empire
| May 6, 2025
Want to learn about Michigan’s secret and spirited past? Here, a historian and U of M grad explores the state’s history as a bootlegging center.
